Maraunenhof

Maraunenhof a district of Königsberg in Prussia, north of the upper pond was located. Southeast were Devau and Kalthof. To the west lay Palwehof. VfB Königsberg had its stadium here.

Name

The name goes back to an Old Prussian person marun and may derive from " Maroni " ( inhabitants of a place on the lagoon ) or " marunas " ( tansy ).

History

Was first mentioned in 1571 as the place Mahrunen fishermen. In 1606 he was called Marauns Hoff Fischer 1785 Maraunen or Maraunenhof. This district was incorporated in 1905 in the urban district of Königsberg and then further broken located and connected to the urban road network. The terrain corporation was instrumental in bringing that Maraunenhof developed into a residential area and the " receding quarters " until then preferred the support home replaced as a residential district. In this district were, directly north of the Old Roßgarten then, a number of allotments, the Racecourse, the horse exhibition space, the Tattersall, an athletic field of the Konigsberg men gymnastics club, the district recruiting office, the district military command, military barracks and the Maraunenhöfer cemetery urn cemetery.

In today's Kaliningrad is the former Maraunenhof with its many prestigious villas one of the neighborhoods with the best-preserved buildings from the pre-war period. The German Consulate General for the Russian exclave was located here in the former Wallenrodtstraße, today Leningradskaya ulitsa (named after the aforementioned 1924-1991 Leningrad city of Saint Petersburg ) Regulations 2007 to 2013.

Religious buildings

• Herzog- Albrecht Memorial Church